Scott Wilk
- Republican
- Senator
- District 21
The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. The act authorizes a school district to provide that education earlier than grade 7 with age-appropriate and medically accurate information. The act requires each school district to notify parents and guardians of pupils about its plan to provide sexual health education and HIV prevention instruction for the upcoming school year and to inform them, among other things, that the written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education are available for inspection. This bill would require the governing board of a school district to adopt a policy at a publicly noticed meeting specifying how parents and guardians of pupils may inspect the written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education, including that the materials, including updates or changes to the materials, are made available, within prescribed timeframes, at each schoolsite and, except as provided, publicly posted on the school district's internet website or, if applicable, on a school district's parent or guardian portal, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Set for hearing May 16.
April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 29.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3659.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 17.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
Bill Text Versions | Format |
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SB996 | HTML |
01/31/24 - Introduced | |
04/24/24 - Amended Senate |
Document | Format |
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04/15/24- Senate Education | |
04/26/24- Senate Appropriations |
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